Jack Boul : paintings and prints
Exhibit
Date
Location
Exhibition Hours
Saturday | 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Admission
Open to the public
Free to attend
Washington DC artist Jack Boul will have a one-week exhibition of his oil paintings and monotypes in the Salmagundi parlor with an opening weekend reception and a mid-week gallery talk. Boul’s work is included in the National Gallery and the Phillips Collection along with many other museums. Boul is a native of Brooklyn raised in the South Bronx. He is now 97 years old and this is his first exhibition in his native New York.
About the Artist
Last year, the First Lady of Maryland added Jack Boul’s work to the Drawing Room at the Governor’s Mansion in Annapolis. Earlier his year, his monotypes were added to the collection of the Library of Congress. Major exhibitions of his work have been shown at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Mint Museum, and Stanford University’s Art Gallery in Washington.
In describing his work, curator and author Eric Denker once wrote:
“Boul depicts such familiar urban sights as water tanks and train yards with the same acuity as he gives to the charm of a Parisian cafe or a Venetian canal. He is devoted to the beauty of the C&O Canal and has a singular fondness for the shapes of cows. Boul’s artistic interests extend from barnyards to barbershops, from wheelbarrows to watering cans. In each image, his spare, simple constructions attempt to convey the essential, characteristic elements of his motif.”
In 2000, Boul had a one-man show at the Corcoran. In a review of that show, longtime Washington Post art critic Paul Richard wrote:
“Boul is excellent at benign glimpses. His subjects are as unthreatening as a stroll in
the country or a visit to the Phillips. He sees an empty wheelbarrow bright in the back yard, glowing in the sunshine of a summer afternoon, and in a few strokes captures the essence of that vision. His monotype technique evokes Edgar Degas’. The modernists of Paris liked to walk through neighborhoods and record the quotidian. Boul sees a bald man in a barbershop getting a haircut, and, through a flurry of his dispersed markings, so do we. He sees a couple dining in Baltimore at Haussner’s, or his wife reading the newspaper in the living room, or cows. Nice bucolic cows. The man makes pleasant pictures.”
Featured Events
Opening Reception
Sep 14, 2024, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Open to the public
RSVP required to attend
Celebrate Jack Boul’s exhibition with us by coming to the opening reception!
Email davidhboul@me.com to RSVP.
Gallery Talk
Open to the public
RSVP required to attend
Featuring Dr. Eric Denker, senior lecturer emeritus at DC’s National Gallery of Art, who curated Jack Boul’s retrospective at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and has written extensively on his work.